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Bill	Rape of a spouse.	(1) Existing law defines rape as an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouse of the perpetrator under certain circumstances, including where the victim is incapable of giving legal consent because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, where the victim is not aware of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraudulent representation that the act serves a professional purpose, and where the victim submits to the act under the belief that the perpetrator is someone known to the victim other than the perpetrator, and the perpetrator intentionally and fraudulently induces that belief.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1171	California AB 1171 (20212022)	bill	Rape of a spouse.	enacted	Cristina Garcia	8	36	9	2021-02-18	2021-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/4ea45f02-ce1f-4517-9b75-a852bfb8493f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1171	8fb8ca70b0fad2e109e3dd00f12553dc35101246370a4fc4c5c570895dfa086a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1171 (20212022) — Rape of a spouse.

(1) Existing law defines rape as an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouse of the perpetrator under certain circumstances, including where the victim is incapable of giving legal consent because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, where the victim is not aware of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraudulent representation that the act serves a professional purpose, and where the victim submits to the act under the belief that the perpetrator is someone known to the victim other than the perpetrator, and the perpetrator intentionally and fraudulently induces that belief.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/27/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1171 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/10/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1171 Cristina Garcia et a By Eggman — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1171 Cristina Garcia Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1171 Cristina Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — principal coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Low — author (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Melendez — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-03 From Consent Calendar.
• 2021-05-03 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Arambula.
• 2021-05-20 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Arambula.
• 2021-05-24 From inactive file.
• 2021-05-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-05-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1580.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-27 Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2021-05-27 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 18. Page 1645.)
• 2021-05-27 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1645.)
• 2021-05-27 (pending re-refer to Com. on APPR.)
• 2021-05-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1902.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2463.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-08 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 2875.)
• 2021-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2922.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2021-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 626, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4ea45f02-ce1f-4517-9b75-a852bfb8493f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).